Bed or couch-bed



' if we e s it. 1 do ih'iTGUST J. KRE'UZKAMP, O2 CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGIIDR TO ENGLAN'DER SPRING- Q'BED CQMEANY, OI BEOGKLYN, EIE'W YORK.

BED 0B COUCH-BED.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 15.,

Application filed August 24, 1916. Serial No. 116,583.

and a bed bottom or sprlng mattress section 'or supports detachably connected to the head and foot in an improved manner,

whereby the structure is simple in construction, durable and rigid in use and can readily be set up or knocked down, while at the same time it is very inexpensive to manufacture.

A. further object of the invention is the provision of an improved bed of the class described in which the bed bottom or spring mattress section is connected. with the head and foot members at the top and bottom of the bottom or spring.

In the drawings accompanying and forming a part of this specification Figure is a longitudinal sectional view of this improved bed; Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the spring mattress frame detached from the head and foot; Fig. 3 is a detailed view, illustrating the. manner of connecting. the spring foot; and Fig. 4: is a partly sectional new at right angles to that of Fig. 3.

Similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures of the drawings.

In the preferred form thereof shown this improvement comprises a head 2 and a foot 3, each of which in the present instance consists of a pair of legs l connected by a cross member 5. Each leg is provided on its inner side at a predetermined distance below the top of the spring ing headed pins 6, and at a point adyacent to the top of the spring with a sw ng ng hook 7, each pit "ctally secured. to the leg on that side thereof, which is inside tive to its companion leg. The spring tress frame comprises a pair of end mem here 8 to which a spring fabric 9 1s connected in the usual manner and of these end members shown in tl e present in mattress section with the head or is the spring tom of the spring mattress by which in the present with inwardly extendstance as formed of angle iron is provided Wlth a depending portion 10, the depending portions on each side being suitably con.- nected by side bar 11 for maintaining the ends properly spaced apart when the spring fabric 18 stretched therebetween. Each of these depending ends is provided with a notch or'slot 12 for the reception of the headed pins hereinbefore referred to carried by the legs of the head and foot.

From the foregoing it will be observed that detachable mattress section is connected with the head and foot at the bottom thereof relatively remote from the top by simple pin and slot connections, and at the top by Slmple hooks which book over the cross angle members of the bed bottom or mattress section which supporting bottom of course can be formed of any suitable material as metal or otherwise, whereby on' raising the hooks the detachable spring inattress section can be readily released from its pins by slightly swinging the head and foot and lifting each end from the head and foot respectively. As the hooks extendover or into the framework comprising the side bars 11 and cross bars 8, to which the spring or bed bottom is connected, and between which it is stretched, they act to wedge this framework, forming the third member or spring of the structure into tight engagement with the other two membersfthe head and the foot, and so prevent any shaking or wabbling joints.

1 am aware that it is not new to make three part bed structure, but in none of these old structures of which I am aware mattress section connected with the head and foot at the top and bottwo entirely different kinds of connection, one of which is releasable prior to the 0thcr, andone of foot or head without the necessity of maintaining the head or the foot, as the case may be, and the spring mattress section in parallel inntaposition so to enable the mattress tion to be slid upward and then removed.

instance is shown -a pin and slot connection-and the other oi tit In other words, in the present improvement it will be observed that by merely first releasing or swinging the hooks 7 away from the cross angle bars 8, the head or foot can be swung away from the mattress sec-' slide the mattress section upward relatively to the head or the foot, while maintaining the head or foot in parallel relation with the end. of the mattress section, a rather ditlicult thing for one person to do with a heavy structure of this kind, especially as such pin and slot connection frequently sticks or binds. In the present improvement, however, the hooks are shifted before the mattress section is handled and then the head or foot can be swung away from the mattress section so that it is not necessary to maintain it in parallel relation with. the end of the mattress section. in order to disconnect the pin and notch connection, and this swinging movement of the head or foot tends to loosen the pin and notch connection, and so relieve any binding or sticking action at this point, so that the mattress can be readily and easily lifted.

By means of the present improvement one mattress section can be readily interchanged with the head and foot of another without being specially fitted thereto,

whereas in all three part structures with which I am familiar the spring section always has to .go with its particular head and foot since they are specially fitted for each other.

I claim-as my invention:

1. A. knock-clown threepart bed structure comprising a head. and a foot, a detachable bed bottom mattress frame comprising side essence bars, end bars and a fabric therebetween,

said frame connected at its top and bottom 'ment with the head and foot and releasable prior to the otherconnection.

2. A knock-down three-part bed structure comprising a head, a foot, and a detachable bed bottom comprising a permanently connected framework consisting of a pair of end bars, a fabric stretch-ed therebetween and side bars permanently connected with said end bars for maintaining' them spaced apart, said bed bottom lrving, connection with the head and too" at each corner thereof by a pair of differently formed con-- nections, one releasable prior to the other, one of each pair comprising a sliding connection and the other located thereabove and comprising a swinging hook in posi tion to hook 'into said framework at the end thereof substantially directly above said first connection and effective to wedge the bed bottom into engagement with the head and foot.

3. A knockdown be" structure comprising a head and a foot, a detachable bed bottom section comprising a pair of connected end members, each consisting of an angle iron cross membn' having depending portions, each of said depending portions having at its lower end a notch, headed pins carried by the head and foot for'the reception of said no ches, and swinging hooks carried by said head and foot menr bers for engagingsaid detachable bed bot- 1 tom section at a pointsubstantially directly above the pin and notch connection.

Signed at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, this 15th day of Au- AUGUST J. BREUZKAMR V gust, 1916. 

